Alumni in the NFL

Kevin Boothe seems solidly entrenched with the NY Giants, being listed as #1 at left guard on the depth chat. Even so, Bleacher Report suggests that perhaps it's not a long term relationship.
And an interview

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Luke Tasker returned a punt 10 yards for San Diego vs. the Bears in the 3rd quarter.

After being cut by the Chargers, Luke is now with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, where he is again playing under Kent Austin.
He was originally signed to the practice squad
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but is ow on the regular roster.
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As of this moment their web site says he has played in zero games, but has 13 receptions for 202 yards.
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Catching up on Sports Illustrated and a few CU sports related tidbits. (Ok only one is CU football alumni, and one is hockey related, but anyway....)

In the 12/9 issue, in the "Go Figure" section:

"3 -- Goalies in NCAA history who have scored off a direct shot, after Cornell freshman Mitch Gillam turned the trick in a 4-2 victory over Niagara. The game was Gillam's first with the Big Red."

Same issue, in an article about Martellus Bennett -- "Soon his Giants teammates were calling him "the most interesting man in football" and were valuing him as much for what he did off the field - he spent Hurricane Sandy at the house of offensive lineman Kevin Boothe, painting with Boothe's two-year old son, Dante - as for his career high 55 catches, 626 yards and five touchdowns last season. "I think he would have fit in perfectly at Cornell," says Boothe, a graduate of that university. "He is a very intelligent man. People hear his jokes and his great sound bites, but behind all that he very intellectual."

And in an issue about the NFL playing in the days after JFK's assassination, Maxie Baughn was quoted several times....

Pretty sure I saw a couple references to him being inactive. Either way, Congratulations to him.

Peyton and the Denver offense, too. Ditto NJ Transit trains. Ditto creativity of the ads. Right now there are 3-5 inches of wet snow on the ground. If you didn't get your FalconJet out of Teterboro when the flight ban lifted at 12:01 a.m., you may still be waiting for a takeoff slot. Now it's on to the well-oiled machine that is the Sochi infrastructure.

JC Trotter is being projected as the starting center for the the Green Bay Packers. Trotter went down with a season ending injury in minicamp (IIRC), though was able to work out with the practice squad at season's end. Green Bay's center from last season recently signed with the Tampa Bay Bucs.

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JC Trotter is being projected as the starting center for the the Green Bay Packers. Trotter went down with a season ending injury in minicamp (IIRC), though was able to work out with the practice squad at season's end. Green Bay's center from last season recently signed with the Tampa Bay Bucs.

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JC Trotter is being projected as the starting center for the the Green Bay Packers. Trotter went down with a season ending injury in minicamp (IIRC), though was able to work out with the practice squad at season's end. Green Bay's center from last season recently signed with the Tampa Bay Bucs.

Nitpick: Tretter.

My bad. It was info I picked up on Sirius/XM radio. When it is discussed on two shows, it must have a bit of truth to it. I knew I probably should have checked the spelling but I was getting ready to leave work.

"7. Looking for a subplot for the big Green Bay-Seattle opener? Check out center, where the Packers might be playing a rookie, Corey Linsley, the fifth-round pick from Ohio State, in the wake of prospective starter J.C. Tretter going down for a few weeks with a knee injury Friday night. Linsley, as of Sunday, had not snapped a ball with the first-team offense since being drafted; all the emphasis had been on getting Tretter, a Cornell kid, ready for his big debut after the Pack let Evan Dietrich-Smith walk in free agency this off-season. I don’t expect it’ll be the decisive factor by any means, but the last thing Mike McCarty wanted in a game of that magnitude is any uncertainty between Aaron Rodgers and his snapper."

Don't want to make a thread for this one guy but I was noodling around on Baseball Reference and saw that you could sort by College Attended. Reminded me that the Diamondbacks took Big Red pitcher Brent Jones in the 4th round this year. He's having a pretty good season in A ball. [www.baseball-reference.com]

His low-A stats aren't as good but since he was promoted, I'm going to assume that is a function of being taught a new pitch or delivery that took a little time to get used to. Someone to keep an eye on, anyway.

The Seahawks trade of Harvin to the Jets might open up some more chances for Walters. He's the established punt returner and he's been getting 3 or 4 looks a game at WR (that role is to stretch the D for Lynch, but still... yeah, I guess).

Somehow this slipped through the cracks but Bryan Walters is playing for the Jacksonville Jaguars, who are technically a professional football team. He's returned some kicks and punts but more importantly he's having his biggest year ever as a receiver. 24 catches so far on the season, including 5 each of the last two weeks and his first touchdown on Sunday against the Jets.

JC Tretter is also still on the Packers roster. He's mostly playing on special teams (he has one "return" on what I assume was a squib) but gets a couple of plays on offense per game, usually it seems in goal-line packages, and he reports in as eligible a lot. I really hope they throw him a pass.

In the NFL free agency signing frenzy, JC Tretter left Green Bay to sign with the Cleveland Browns. 3 yr /16.75 million with 6.5 million guaranteed.

He was on Sirius Radio/NFL Radio Monday 3/13 The Opening Drive show (10 am hour) with Bob Papa and Ross Tucker. Tretter said a major reason for signing with the Browns was that he would be the starting Center - a position that he feels is his best. In Green Bay he played where he was needed.

I didn't know that he was a QB in high school and just as he put it "an athlete" playing all different sports.

In the NFL free agency signing frenzy, JC Tretter left Green Bay to sign with the Cleveland Browns. 3 yr /16.75 million with 6.5 million guaranteed.

He was on Sirius Radio/NFL Radio Monday 3/13 The Opening Drive show (10 am hour) with Bob Papa and Ross Tucker. Tretter said a major reason for signing with the Browns was that he would be the starting Center - a position that he feels is his best. In Green Bay he played where he was needed.

I didn't know that he was a QB in high school and just as he put it "an athlete" playing all different sports.

Green Bay also lost lineman JT Lang in free agency - to Detroit.

Tretter has a good chance of being the Browns' starting QB. More seriously, has the NFL had a center who is the team's emergency QB?

According to an article in the Washington Examiner, Lazor earned $483,000 as a UVA assistant in 2012 and I'm sure he makes more now. The only benefit of being Cornell's HC might be an end to his peripatetic life. Too bad it's unlikely to happen.

Not starting a new topic, but QB Jeff Mathews '14 has been knocking around the CFL since bouncing around the NFL (signed and cut by Atlanta, Indianapolis and Arizona without making it past the practice squad). Spent the 2015 and 2016 seasons with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats (mostly as a backup but with a run of starts in 2015 that ended with a late-season injury) and this last year as the backup in Toronto where he just watched the team win a Grey Cup. I think he gets used as a Wildcat QB because he has one or two rushing plays a game with only one game in each of the last two seasons in which he threw a pass.

WR Luke Tasker '13 has likewise been playing in the CFL - he's been with Hamilton for 5 years after getting signed and cut by the Chargers after graduation. He's getting better - 104 receptions this year, a career high.

In the NFL free agency signing frenzy, JC Tretter left Green Bay to sign with the Cleveland Browns. 3 yr /16.75 million with 6.5 million guaranteed.

He was on Sirius Radio/NFL Radio Monday 3/13 The Opening Drive show (10 am hour) with Bob Papa and Ross Tucker. Tretter said a major reason for signing with the Browns was that he would be the starting Center - a position that he feels is his best. In Green Bay he played where he was needed.

I didn't know that he was a QB in high school and just as he put it "an athlete" playing all different sports.